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The ultra-wealthy invest through family offices. Here’s how to join them
The concept of a family office can be traced back to Roman times, but the more modern versions originated in the 19th century ...
Trump’s emerging foreign policy is a disturbing 19th-century throwback
Nations pursuing “spheres of influence” set the stage for World War I.
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Philadelphia-area USPS workers fear a private takeover. Could it happen?
The Trump administration has flirted with the idea of selling the U.S. Postal Service to the highest bidder. Postal workers ...
Museum Curators Discovered a 19th-Century Book Bound With the Skin of a Notorious Killer
Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...
Romantic Notes Discovered at University of Southern Maine Date Back to the 1800s
A series of romantic notes once passed between 19th century teenagers were discovered at the University of Maine in 2024. Now ...
‘Millions of flies in the evidence room’: inside Belgium’s rotting Justice Palace
The courthouse was inaugurated in 1883 during the reign of King Leopold II, the Belgian monarch infamous for his brutal ...
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Peterson Rich Office to renovate MoMA Design Store Soho
MoMA Design Store Soho first opened in 2001 at 81 Spring Street, a 19th century building with cast iron columns and masonry ...
Could Trump invoke another rarely-used law at the border?
Throughout his election campaign, Trump vowed to crackdown on illegal immigration, calling the southern border situation a ...
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The Story of the Gilded Age Wasn’t Wealth. It Was Corruption.
Richard White, the historian and author of "The Republic for Which It Stands," explains what made the late 19th century gilded.
Remains taken from Hawaiian burial caves repatriated from Northern Ireland
Three sets of ancestral human remains taken from burial caves in Hawaii and brought to Belfast in the 19th century have been ...
White smoke: Boehner's encounter with Pope Francis changed Congress forever
The late Pope Francis came to Washington, D.C., to speak to a Joint Meeting of Congress on Sept. 24, 2015. He wasn’t the ...
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What’s up with Trump’s fascination with two obscure 19th-century presidents?
Trump has about 20 portraits in the Oval Office. They include Andrew Jackson, his initial, unusual 19th-century presidential fixation. Jackson, a Democrat considered the first populist president ...